Design, When Everybody Designs An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation

Name: Design, When Everybody Designs An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation
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ISBN: 9780262028608

ISBN-10: 0262028603

ISBN-13: 9780262028608

Edition: 2015

Authors: Ezio Manzini, Rachel Coad

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In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance a life project. Sometimes these projects generate unprecedented solutions; sometimes they converge on common goals and realize larger transformations. As Ezio Manzini describes in this book, we are witnessing a wave of social innovations as these changes unfold -- an expansive open co-design process in which new solutions are suggested and new meanings are created. Manzini distinguishes between diffuse design (performed by everybody) and expert design (performed by those who have been trained as designers)…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/20/2015
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.29" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Ezio Manzini, a leading thinker in design for sustainability, founded DESIS: an international network on design for social innovation and sustainability ( http://www.desis-network.org). He has been Professor at the Politecnico di Milano and is currently guest Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, and University of the Arts London.